Russian coach Fedor Kanareikin said he wants hockey to remain a tough and manly sport. legal betting.
“There are hockey players in the middle of the pitch with good power applied and it crumbles on the ice. What to do in this situation? Change the section and do figure skating, ”said Kanareikin.
The new season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) started with the match played between CSKA Moscow and Ak Bars Kazan on 1 September. The club from the capital of Tatarstan won with a score of 5:2.
On August 4, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) sanctioned CSKA with a one-season international transfer ban for breach of contract with the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Philadelphia Flyers team. In addition, according to the decision, Fedotov’s goalkeeper will not be able to play in the Continental Hockey League until 31 December 2023. On August 27, the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) allowed Fedotov to play from January 1, 2024.
CSKA was supposed to start the new season of the KHL regular season without Fedotov, but the goalkeeper hit the ice in the Ak Bars match.
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